Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sold below par. By this time the anti-inflationist battle lines had been drawn. The alignment was vociferous, widespread but disorganized. The hard moneymen were no more articulate about what they were struggling for than the President's reticent financial advisers. What they were fighting against, however, was plain...
...Sewalls were F. F. C.'s (First Family of Chicago) and proud of it. But old Granny Sewall, remembering pioneer days, log cabins, the Great Fire, plain living and hard work, shook her head at some of the goings-on of her descendants. The Sewall bank was booming; they all had plenty of money and little to do for it; even before the War gave them an excuse to run wild, some of the Sewalls were slipping from the pioneer virtues. But Granddaughter Sally had good stuff in her; she sympathized with her Granny. Wartime and love...
Francis Hardon Burr '35, of Needham has been elected Varsity football manager for 1934, and Frank Stanton Deland '36 of Jamaica Plain has been elected first assistant manager, it was announced yesterday. This puts Deland in position for the post of manager in 1935. Benjamin H. Hallowell '36, was announced as second assistant manager, and Graham King '36, as third assistant manager. King will act as head Freshman manager next year until the competition ends, the week before the Freshman game with Yale...
...monetary message which disrupted the London Economic Conference, his lone companion and adviser aboard was none other than Henry Morgenthau Jr. At the time Mr. Morgenthau's presence so close to the presidential pen was minimized or ignored altogether but by last week its full significance was startlingly plain...
Journalist Mark Sullivan is catching up as a contemporary historian. His history of Our Times (1900-25) began appearing in 1926. has now reached 1918. This fifth volume, as full as the others of forgotten details for which historians will be grateful and plain readers too. shows the U. S. in its swiftest recent years...